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ENTERTAINER ROLF HARRIS has been found guilty of all 12 counts of indecent assault.
The 84-year-old artist and broadcaster was convicted of the attacks against four girls between the years 1968 and 1986.
The verdict was returned at Southwark Crown Court in London this afternoon.
The complainants ranged in age from seven or eight to 19, and in all but one of the cases, the victims were under 16.
Harris had denied the charges during the six-week trial.
He has been released on bail until Friday when he will be sentenced. Judge Nigel Sweeney has warned Harris that it was “inevitable” that he could face a jail term.
In a statement, the Crown Prosecution Service said Harris had used his status and position as a world famous children’s entertainer to sexually assault young girls over 18 years.
“The victims in this case have suffered in silence for many years and have only recently found the courage to come forward,” said Jenny Hopkins, the deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor .
That bravery and determination has seen Rolf Harris brought to justice and held to account.
Each of the victims had, unknown to the others, described a similar pattern of behaviour, Hopkins said: “That of a man acting without fear of the consequences”.
Harris was arrested in March of last year as part of Operation Yewtree, the wide-ranging investigation in the UK into child sex abuse which began as a result of revelations against television presenter Jimmy Savile.
During the trial, the court heard that the entertainer used his status as a television celebrity to carry out the assaults on girls, including his daughter’s friend.
Prosecutors described him as a ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ character who had a dark side to his personality.
“Mr Harris was too famous, too powerful and his reputation made him untouchable,” prosecutor Sasha Wass told the court.
“Concealed behind this charming and amicable children’s entertainer lay a man who exploited the very children who were drawn to him”.
First published 16.18pm
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14 Henrietta Street is fantastic for both tourists and locals. The guide takes you upstairs to huge staircase for the music room, drawing room and bedroom and you hear about the great and the good, eg Gardiner, Molesworth and names you know. Right out of a Jane Austin novel
Then a swift shock to the system when you go the corridor neglected by slumlords and to the basement how people in the 1900’s lived
You finish on the 1st floor when a family as recently as the 1970’s lived. Delph with the Chinese patterns, godawful smelling carbolic soap (some love the smell??), lucozade when it was a health product in a glass bottle and other products
The guides are super and love their job, buy a ticket :)
@Michael McLoughlin:
Still use the Carbolic soap , yer only man for the weekly wash. Can also be used as a deodorant and as paint remover. Mrs not too keen on it mind you.
Fantastic job done by all involved in putting this together, and the guides brilliant !! Couldn’t recommend enough .
Mother was a nurse in the old coombe hospital at Meath st. God she tells some horrific stories of calls to tenements in that area
@Eamonn O Connell: wow, I’m a nurse,would love to hear your mams stories.
@Gill Dempsey: Somme very sad stories of hard births and lost babies. The poverty was unbelievable but the people were very good she could walk up Meath Street and into any tenement building at any hour and got only the height of respect from people. no fear of being attacked are interfered with in any way
Once it got dark we had to use a bucket for the loo . The 2 toilets were in a little yard under street level. A back stairs led down to them. Rats were always around. No go area at night.
The tenements are making a comeback!
Does anyone know if Henrietta Street was the actual street used as the fictional Chandlers Court in the classic 1980 RTE rendition of Strumpet City by James Plunkett?
I’m a Bolton St DIT Eng graduate (1990) and remember well the near by cobbled stoned Street that is Henrietta St, leading up to Kings Inns.
I have a US version of the DVD and still enjoy watching it – Real Dublin entertainment! (It does however put my 3 US teen sons to sleep
I have a very intresting story from care at 16 into a tenement what a disaster who needs a mother she was not a fit mother
Does anyone know if Henrietta Street was the actual street used as the fictional Chandlers Court in the classic 1980 RTE rendition of Strumpet City by James Plunkett?
I’m a Bolton St DIT Eng graduate (1990) and remember well the near by cobbled stoned Street that is Henrietta St, leading up to Kings Inns.
I have a US version of the DVD and still enjoy watching it – Real Dublin entertainment! (It does however put my 3 US teen sons to sleep
Over the last few days you have used a number of photographs to which I own the copyright [the Chinese New Year being another example] … my photographs are made available free of charge to anyone who wishes to use them [many are used by Wikipedia] but in order to use them you must clearly indicate who owns the copyright and you must supply a proper link to the source. Indicating that the source is Wikipedia Commons is the source is not sufficient. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Street,_Dublin. For copyright conditions please refer to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HENRIETTA_STREET_-_DUBLIN_(402556531).jpg
I visited 14 Henrietta Street last week. It is a brilliant experience and I would highly recommend it!
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